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‘A British couple told yesterday how social workers travelled to France to seize their newborn baby after they moved to the country.

Officials intervened after accusations that the mother’s five other children had suffered physical and sexual abuse. But the woman and her partner say the claims emerged only after the youngsters had been taken into care at her request during a period of personal and financial upheaval. Now they have begun a legal battle to have their four-week-old girl returned to them.’